Re: xpm-Konverter?

2006-06-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Matthias Schmidt schrieb: I`m starting to work with Lyx again with Lyx 1.4.1 (windows installer, german). I cannot view the tutorial als a PDF-file: I get the information: "Keine Information vorhanden, um Dateien im xpm-Format nach png zu konvertieren. Definieren Sie einen Konverter in den Eins

Re: How to write integrals with limits forced to be above and below?

2006-06-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul Smith wrote: Write \int\limits _{a}^{b}f\left(x\right)dx and select it, and then crtl+m. Alternatively set the cursor behind the integral in the formula and use then the menu Edit -> Math -> Change Limits Type regards Uwe

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Pye wrote: What's the right string of tools to embed an SVG with alpha-channel transparency into a LyX document so that I get the alpha channel appearing right in the end-product PDF file? Transform your SVG to PDF. Inkscape supports alpha channels in SVG and in PNG, see http://wiki.i

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Pye wrote: Is that still true? I take it to mean that I can't bypass LyX's use of 'convert' in converting my SVG first to a PNG? You should be able to define a SVG -> PNG converter in LyX's preferences. If you use Imagemagick's convert utility to do this you probably save the alpha chann

Re: Install spellchecker in LyX 1.4.4-4

2007-06-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ricardo Bessa schrieb: I can´t install spellchecker with aspell in LyX 1.4.4-4, how a can do this mannualy? You can e.g. download them from here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=9651 A try to install but Lyx doesn´t detect aspell 0.6. Then try to

Re: Install spellchecker in LyX 1.4.4-4

2007-06-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: I see two problems here: 1. lyx uses only one URL to download the dictionary. If ftp.lyx.org is down, or unusable like this case, lyx installer will fail. It would be nice to use a backup URL, or allow users to specify a URL. LyXWinInstaller therefore use 4 URLs: ftp.lyx.org,

Re: How to build LyX on Windows

2007-06-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Brandl schrieb: I have to make some modifications to the LyX source, so I have to build it afresh on Windows. What is the recommended way for doing that nowadays? http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/INSTALL.Win32 regards Uwe

Re: How to build LyX on Windows

2007-06-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Brandl schrieb: I got the SVN to compile fine with the instructions, but after copying the .exe over lyxc.exe of a completed 1.4.4 install, a dialog appears "Runtime Error R6034, An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application's

Re: How to build LyX on Windows

2007-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Brandl schrieb: FYI, I now solved the problem. I had even built an installer and it wouldn't run from a fresh install with it. The problem was that in the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file, there is a line which should be With that change, it runs fine. This is no solution becaus

Re: Change of language

2007-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hellmut Weber schrieb: > I had an english document which I copied and used for a similar one in > german. I changed the language >>Document >Settings >Languge to ngerman. > > When I tried to generate the pdf i got an error message of some babel > stuff missing. > When I look at the lyx file with

Re: problems with aspell

2007-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Filippo Ottone schrieb: All dictionary seem not working on my lyx setup. I have installed lyxwininstall 1.5, the setup download english and italian dictionary but they don't work in lyx and no error message appers. what's wrong? You have installed LyX 1.5rc1 from here, right?: http://develope

Re: captions for longables

2007-06-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
gwyn hopkins schrieb: I know that there is an ugly hack for getting numbered captions Do you mean the one given in the EmbeddedObjects manual of LyX 1.4.4? In LyX 1.5 (will be released in two weeks or so) you will be able to insert captions to longtables nearly as for all other captions. re

Re: problems with aspell

2007-06-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Filippo Ottone schrieb: no error message appear, simply not work!!! Hmm, then I could not help you other than to recommend to reinstall LyX again. Uninstall LyX and also Aspell before reinstalling. Uninstall also the aspell dictionaries, assure that you have also no rests of perhaps previous

Re: rc1 - math symbol problem

2007-06-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Graham Griffiths schrieb: When trying to insert the math symbol \ointctrclockwise from the "big operators" math menu, it always fails. The symbol shows up at first, then dissapears when rendered. If I try to generate a pdf file I get the error message: "Undefined control sequence." Fo

Re: Ceiling or floor symbol in math

2007-06-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Raja Zubair schrieb: I am using Lyx 1.5.0. beta3. I have looked thoroughly in the math toolbar and I am unable to find ceiling or floor symbol in it. Can anybody any idea about how to get it. Click on the item with a blue box surrounded by brackets in the math toolbar. This opens the delimite

Re: Tables and figures going in different directions with 'rotate sideways'

2007-06-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Pye schrieb: The problem is that on left pages, the figures are rotated so that the bottom of the figure (and its caption) is on the left, but on the right pages, the figures are rotated so that the bottom of the figure is on the right. The format I would like would be for all of the figur

Re: Help to make the given table in Lyx--Table attached this time

2007-06-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tariq Abdullah schrieb: I want to make a table like this in Lyx, by using Lyx table option. From you email I don't understand what exactly you want. But in general you can have a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that comes with LyX 1.4.4 to find out how different tables types can be create

Re: No Text Class Found?

2007-06-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paniez Paykari schrieb: I have tried to download lyx on my windows. After going through all the steps, it does not open lyx and the error message is 'No TextClass Found'. How can I fix this? The easiest method it to try reinstalling LyX using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWi

Re: Boxed graphic

2007-06-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hellmut Weber schrieb: does the graphic include dialog offer a possibility to get the graphic boxed (as if it were in a fbox) or do I have to do that myself with ERT? You have to do this by yourself. You can either set it into a single table cell or put it into a framed box, see the attached

Re: Cannot find a Tutorial for oding a beamer presentation

2007-06-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Kummer schrieb: I would like to write my first presentation on LyX, but since I am a dummy I will need a Tutorial. You find some example files in LyX's examples folder. The Beamer documentation is the most beautiful I've ever read and you find there everything you need to know. It als

Re: Line break

2007-06-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás schrieb: Is there any way of having a line-break in LyX that is not translated into a line-break in the latex document? No. That is, I would like to see this in LyX: Text1 Text2 An this in Latex: Text1Text2 Why, this is not WYSIWYM? regards Uwe

Re: \usepackage{draftcopy} with article class

2007-06-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rich Shepard schrieb: Is there a reason why the draftcopy package will not work with an article class document? Don't know. I had other problems with this package and thereore now use the "draftwatermark" package. regards Uwe

Re: Lyx crashing on backspace, 1.5rc1. if pagebreak and math mode enabled

2007-06-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sven Schreiber schrieb: It's most likely one of the known bugs, and the workaround advice given to me was: disable right-to-left language support if you don't need it. -sven Yes, this is a known bug that is fixed for the next release candidate. regards Uwe

Re: à propos des symboles mathématiqu es

2007-06-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bernard Blondot schrieb: Je constate que les titres des rubrique de la barre d' outils ne respectent pas les caractères accentués ( exemple insérerer est écrit insÄ©rer) Par ailleurs sur l' écran les symboles mathématiques et les lettres grecques apparaissent avec leur code lateX... Note th

Re: Cannot find a Tutorial for oding a beamer presentation

2007-06-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John O'Gorman schrieb: Beamer is nice Beautiful, when you get it working. I found I had to start with a minimal presentation, and build it up step by step. The complex examples supplied with Beamer mostly did not work on my systems (SuSE 9, 9.3, 10, 10.2). You need a recent version of Bea

Re: double labels

2007-06-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jakub Suder schrieb: I think there should be a check if the entered name for a new label doesn't already exist, and if it does, there should be an error message... Yes. Could you please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org? thanks and regards Uwe

Re: Help! Problem with Windows Installer

2007-06-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joel Yuen schrieb: Once I install all the components such as MikTex, Gsview, etc., there is a black window that shows up and says +checking for default encoding (this may take a long time) + checking for ec fonts... yes + checking for ec support in LaTex format... yes and then it gets stuc

Re: symbols not rendered properly

2007-06-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Fernando Roig schrieb: Using 1.5.0rc1 in Windows I found the following strange behavior. In math mode the symbols \neq and \notin are rendered properly when you click or type them. But as soon as I leave the math mode, they become rendered as /= and //in Known problem. Fixed for the next rel

Re: Help! Problem with Windows Installer

2007-06-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I thought it was LyX (or a LyX script) that did the reconfigure? Yes. This script checks for available LaTeX-packages and MiKTeX then automatically tries to install missing ones. When no internet connection is available MiKTeX won't run, so I assume that the user h

Re: Help! Problem with Windows Installer

2007-06-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Original-Nachricht Von: Joel Yuen You're a genius! It was just the firewall. Thanks so much Joel. Uwe Stöhr wrote: Joel Yuen schrieb: Once I install all the components such as MikTex, Gsview, etc., there is a black window that shows up and says +checking for de

[announce] LyX 1.5rc2-27-06-2007 for Windows

2007-06-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I uploaded an installer for LyX 1.5rc2: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=13014 Changelog to last release candidate: Version LyX 1.5rc2-27-06-2007 - LyX 1.5rc2 from 27-06-2007 - new Chinese translation of LyX's menus - new button to cl

Re: 1.50rc2 Windoze: Aspell problems again (installer)

2007-06-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jim Rockford schrieb: For version 1.5.0 release candidate 2: When I use the Windoze installer I get the mysterious message InetLoad plug-in "Your internet connection seems to have dropped out! Please reconnect and clock Retry to resume downloading..." With this installer?: http://developer.be

Re: [announce] LyX 1.5rc2-27-06-2007 for Windows

2007-06-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: The Update installer version allows you to update your existing LyX installation to the latest version. To use this installer you must have my last development snaphot LyX 1.5rc1-31-05-2007 installed. I have this version installed, but nevertheless I get an error

Re: Found how to get displaystyle!

2007-06-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David L. Johnson schrieb: A week or so ago, I posted a question here about how to change the font size/style within a math inset, which once upon a time was arranged by entering "math_size displaystyle" in the minibuffer. That no longer works, though it still is in the documentation What

Re: Lyx on Win xp: Export and Print in the File Menue is disabled

2007-06-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Erik Schmid schrieb: In the file menue, the export and the print functions are disabled. I don't know what I shoul do. Please help me. Then you don't have a correct LaTeX-instalation. LyX checks the existing LaTeX-installations and if it fins there the needed programs to expot files, this men

Re: Problem with reference to algorithm

2007-06-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gustavo Felisberto schrieb: I inserted a float algorithm, added a label and when trying to cross reference it and then export to pdf I get an error: " \vref{alg:TCP-Connection} The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. The reason for this is the

Re: minor rc2 issues

2007-06-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
* When I create a new empty doc while having another one open (in my case, actually two other docs open), the contents of the doc in the other tab is still visible (screen is not cleared), except for the first line which waits for my input. This doesn't change when I start typing, only when I hit

Re: error in EmbeddedObjects

2007-06-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bob Lounsbury schrieb: In Section 2.12.1 it says that the height of all table rows can be changed by placing the following command in the preamble: \setlength{\extrarowheight}{height} This is not true Yes, I forgot to mention that the array package is used for this because LyX loads this au

Re: [announce] LyX 1.5rc2-27-06-2007 for Windows

2007-06-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: To use this installer you must have my last development snaphot LyX 1.5rc1-31-05-2007 installed. I have this version installed, but nevertheless I get an error when opening the .exe. What is the error message? Just a popup saying "Dieses Update-Paket kann nur

Re: Found how to get displaystyle!

2007-06-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David L. Johnson schrieb: What section in the UserGuide? I'll correct this. For more problems with the Userguide write to the lyx-docs mailing list. 5.7.3 I fixed this for the next LyX release. Note that you can also, more easily, use the math panel button "style" to change the size. rega

Re: [announce] LyX 1.5rc2-27-06-2007 for Windows

2007-06-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: I have the same problem (other than the message being in English). Hmm, either this is my bug or your installation is corrupted. Could you please look if in the registry the entries of the following folder contain "1.5rc1-31-05-2007": HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6

Re: RC2 is a total catastrophe

2007-06-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin Rauscher schrieb: There seems to be a font issue on windows, see http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3949 Yes, I already thought it would be a font problem. I tried to copy the fonts from lyx to the Windows Font folder, but with no luck. Should I delete them from there, again? W

Re: legend at side of figure

2007-06-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I have three figures in a float underneath each other (they have to be this way for logical reasons). The legend is too long to fit the page. How can I put the legend to the right side of the figures? This is described in section 3.7 or 3.8 in the EmbeddedObjects m

Re: Really s-l-o-w configuration of rc2 on XP

2007-07-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: When the installer got around to running the configuration script, it took easily ten times the normal time (normal time being about a minute or so, this go around being upwards of 10 minutes). During that time, fc-cache.exe (which I gather is a font caching utility tha

Re: References in Equations

2007-07-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin Rauscher schrieb: I just tried to insert a reference within an equation with LyX. But LyX set it just BEFORE the equation. I don't see this. Could you attach a small example LyX-file? regards Uwe

Re: References in Equations

2007-07-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin Rauscher schrieb: A example, with my ERT inserted, or with the (wrong) placed lyx-reference? The latter. Maybe it only occours if you us it like me: Create an equation, and set a mark. Now create another equation an try to insert the reference ABOVE the "=" sign. I still don't und

Re: legend at side of figure

2007-07-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: This is described in section 3.7 or 3.8 in the EmbeddedObjects manual. I did not mean text floating around a figure. It's IN a float environment Yes, I mean that too. It's described in section "Caption Placement". (The package "sidecap") regards Uwe

Re: Really s-l-o-w configuration of rc2 on XP

2007-07-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: This is the a problem of the used MiKTeX package repository or your internet connection. Does it go faster when you manually select another package repository in MiKTeX's options and then reconfigure LyX? What about my question? I can't test this without uninstalling/r

Re: Table column width

2007-07-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Grahame Blackwood schrieb: I am trying to set the width of a column in a table, but no matter what I do, it refuses to work. Have a look in the EmbededObject manual where this is described in detail. This manual is available since LyX 1.4.4, but you can download it also from here: http://wi

Re: Really s-l-o-w configuration of rc2 on XP

2007-07-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: I didn't need to reset it -- it was still set to 'no' after installation. Does the installer automatically reset it to its previous value? Not that I know. I just checked my LaTeX configuration page in LyX. It shows a number of missing document classes (none of whic

Re: Love the new LyXLauncher

2007-07-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Just a thank you note to the developers in general for the new version and, particularly, to whoever came up with LyXLauncher.exe for Windows. Many thanks. I wrote this program with the help of Martin Rauscher. regards Uwe

Re: legend at side of figure

2007-07-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: working with 1.4.3 I checked Hilfe > Handbuchergänzungen and > Anpassung not realizing that the EmbeddedObjects is a separate document (in 1.4.3). This manual is shipped since LyX 1.4.4, but you can also download it from here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentatio

Re: legend at side of figure

2007-07-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I have still difficulties with the "sidecap" Could you send me a small example LyX-file so that I can have a look? koma-script provedes its own method to set captions to the side, but normally this one and sidecap don't interfere. regards Uwe

Re: bibtex - breaking line

2007-07-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Giuseppe Vitalone schrieb: Hi, Hi have a very long URL in a entry of type @misc, and Bibtex writes it "inline"... how can I force to break the line? Use the package hyperref in the preamble of your document, and put the URL into the \href{}-command. regards Uwe

Re: Lyx cv class

2007-07-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jim Rockford schrieb: In my current installation (linux) of 1.5.0rc2, I see that the lyx curriculum vitae class (cv.cls) is not available, allthough lyx apparently installed it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/. Because the cv.cls is not the one LyX expects. This nasty problem has been solved

Re: Powerdot users: how to create pdf?

2007-07-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rudi Gaelzer schrieb: After all that, I was able to generate the dvi from the powerdot-example.lyx file, but I'm still not able to create a pdf using pdflatex. Powerdot uses PSTricks and is therefore not compatible to pdftex. To get a PDF you have to use dvipdfm or better ps2pdf as export met

Re: Lyx 1.5.0rc2: \overset math command

2007-07-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás schrieb: The \overset math command is not correctly displayed in my LyX 1.5.0rc2 Works fine here. What is wrong? regards Uwe

Re: Lyx 1.5.0rc2: \overset math command

2007-07-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás schrieb: If I write \overset{def}{=} I get the preview shown in the attached picture, that is 'def' does not appear above '=', but they both overlap. Works fine here. I write \overset, press space, and then fill in the two appearing boxes. LyX-file attached. regards Uwe newfile1.ly

Re: Longtable captions

2007-07-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
James schrieb: 1. Open the Embedded Objects help file (help->Embedded Objects) 2. Go to section 2.6.2, Table 2. 3. Change the width on the first column to 1 inch. Notice that the caption goes crazy and becomes very ³tall² Of course, because there is not enough space. So the characters are set

Re: installation errors: no textclasses found

2007-07-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Irshad Alam schrieb: Im installing Lyx from lyx.org. for windows. It gives me this error message. Perhaps you don't have MiKTeX installed or another problem occured. You can manually run LyX's configure script, but for newbies I recommend to reinstall LyX using the complete version of this in

Re: when final release 1.5.0?

2007-07-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Todd Denniston schrieb: Does this help? http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ShowStoppers150 I updated the page. regards Uwe

Re: I don't know how to display the ‰ symbol

2007-07-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
María-José schrieb: Hello, I'm using lyx to write my thesis work, and I cannot insert the symbol ‰ either with the ascii code (alt + 0137) or with the ecuation panel. it's really important to me and i would like to solve to continue. With the upcoming LyX 1.5.0 you can insert it directly via

Re: I don't know how to display the ‰ symbol

2007-07-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: in LyX 1.4.x you have to use the ERT-command \textpercent Sorry the command is \textperthousand Uwe

Re: Margin note in the left margin

2007-07-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul Smith schrieb: Is there some way of placing a margin note in the left margin? See section 4.3 of the EmbdeddedObjects manual that comes with LyX 1.4.4 and LyX 1.5rc2. (http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#EmbeddedObjects) regards Uwe

Re: LyX 1.5 and 1.4.5

2007-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Matthias Diehl schrieb: LyX 1.5 and 1.4.5 will come out soon. What is the difference between these versions? http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX15 regards Uwe

Re: LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks

2007-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick and Anne Hopton schrieb: The following, in ERT, almost works, but clicking on the link produced in the PDF starts three instances of Firefox, only one of which shows the required HTML file. \href{file://F:/Directory1/Directory2/index.html}{name} You can alternatively simply use: \href

Re: LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks

2007-07-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick and Anne Hopton schrieb: Thanks Uwe. My default browser is Firefox and following your suggestion when I click on the link in the PDF three instances of Firefox start up, but none of them display the required HTML file. Firefox starts up with the error message "Firefox doesn't know how to

Re: flashcards layout

2007-07-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jonathan Vogt schrieb: I just found out about the flashcards (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flashcards) latex package and started using it in lyx. I used the layout file from http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~mhoffman/latex/flashcards/ as a start. I added some list envoir

Re: feature request

2007-07-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Anderson schrieb: Bugzilla doesn't have anywhere that I can find for enhancement requests, in bugzilla.lyx.org do: - open a new bug report - set the bug severity to enhancement That's it. regards Ue

Re: LyX, pdflatex and local hyperlinks

2007-07-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick and Anne Hopton schrieb: is that the drive letter (F:) is hard wired into the link. However, what I want to do is put the PDF file containing the link and the HTML file at which the link points onto a CD, but it doesn't seem possible to use relative paths in PDF links. Besides what Todd

Re: Lyx 1.5.0

2007-08-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Srijit Kumar Bhadra schrieb: The Lyx 1.5.0-1 were not released in http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall/. Is it due to a dataloss problem with compressed documents ( http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows )? I was in vacation. But yes, the mentioned problem forced us to release LyX

Re: Inkscape use

2007-08-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> I'm trying to implement the instructions provided on the wiki site for using inkscape to handle > svg figures. I can't seem to get it to work with Lyx 1.5. When you will install LyX using this alternative Windows installer: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall/ (Version for LyX 1

Re: \usepackage{draftcopy}

2007-08-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> I would like to use this package, but it does nothing when I view the dvi > or pdflatex output on screen. (The preamble does contain > \usepackage{...,draftcopy}.) This package didn't work for me either, so I use now the draftwatermark package. I have this in my preamble: \usepackage{draftwate

Re: Inkscape use

2007-08-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Anderson schrieb: So what about on a mac? Add these lines to the file "preferences" in LyX's settings folder: --- \format "svg" "svg" "SVG" "" "inkscape --file=i" "inkscape --file=i" "vector"$\r$\n\ # # CONVERTERS SECTION ##$\r$\n\ # \conv

Re: Inkscape use

2007-08-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Anderson schrieb: I keep getting an "error converting to loadable format." in the on screen preview and a string of error messages when I try to run a preview What does LyX's console window tell you? To get the console window, start LyX from a console using this command: lyx -dbg grap

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.5.1 and LyX 1.4.5.1

2007-08-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I uploaded two new versions of the LyXWinInstaller: - Version 2.17: - installs LyX 1.4.5.1 - Version 3.18: - installs LyX 1.5.1 (and the latest MiKTeX 2.6 in the complete installer version) Version 2.17 is only available as small installer version (without MiKTeX) because LyX 1.4

Re: List of Figures Mibehaves?

2007-08-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Roy Schestowitz schrieb: I am using LyX 1.3.5 to produce this and I have no idea what else to check. Any thoughts/advice? The only advice I can give is to update to a newer LyX version. I can recommend the new LyX 1.5.1 release but when you want to keep working with LyX 1.3.x you should at le

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: Then i tried to start but it won't work. So i looked a little bit around what can de the reason for this bad start of lyx. After copying the textclass.lst from the binary dir to my appdata dir lyx starts correctly and i can work with it. But if i want to make a preview in pdf

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: "TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!" This happens when configure.py was not successful. There was once a bug in MiKTeX that caused this but as you have the latest MiKTeX 2.6 installed, this can't be the reason. But you tell that latex.exe is running consuming all the C

Re: Cosmetic (?) bug report

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Francis Dalaudier schrieb: When I produce a pdf from (a copy of) Help file UserGuide.lyx The BookMarks in pdf document are buggy: 1.1 What is L.25emYX? The error is contained in the temporary file UserGuide.out \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.1.1}{1.1 What is L.25emYX?}{chapter.1} All occurrenc

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: > the directory failure on preview in pdf does still exist. What is the exact error message (screenshot)? Do you have any idea, why pdfviewwin.exe can't access the previewfile? The PDFViewWin.exe is there to be able to update PDFs that are open in Acrobat. Unfortunately there

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: > the directory failure on preview in pdf does still exist. What is the exact error message (screenshot)? Of course i can give you a screenshot. See the Appendix. OK, this has nothing to do with acroread/acrobat. Could you please check if the Path given in the error dialog

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: OK, this has nothing to do with acroread/acrobat. Could you please check if the Path given in the error dialogs exists. If yes, is there the PDF-file XXX-preview.pdf. Yes, the path exists and there is also a pdf file named like my document and containg my compiled lyx stuff,

Printable PDF-version of Userguide Was: Cosmetic (?) bug report

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Francis Dalaudier schrieb: When I produce a pdf from (a copy of) Help file UserGuide.lyx The BookMarks in pdf document are buggy: 1.1 What is L.25emYX? The error is contained in the temporary file UserGuide.out \BOOKMARK [1][-]{section.1.1}{1.1 What is L.25emYX?}{chapter.1} All occurrenc

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás schrieb: Using the pdfview.exe (and related files) that come with the official installer (v1.5.1) I experience the following with both Acrobat Standard 7.0 and Acrobat Reader 8.1: -PDFLatex-View works fine -PDFLatex-View-Update does NOT work. The document is recompiled, but the buffe

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás schrieb: As I said, your solution does not work always fine with Acrobat Standard 7.0. If the LyX document is the only one opened in Acrobat, everything is ok. However, if there are other documents opened in Acrobat, the LyX document is updated, but it is shown from the first page. C

Re: Where can I find better info on LyX functions?

2007-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I think Uwe just updated/created this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctionList1-5-1 Yes, the list is now actual again. regards Uwe

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 can't show preview in pdf

2007-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas schrieb: Can you just answer me that one question. Then i will debug the stuff and maybe i'll find the reason. The path is given to PDFViewWin by LyX. PDFViewWin doesn't change it, it takes the path and test if there is really a PDF to start its actions. You find the source code of

Re: Nomenclature works fine but a slight bug remains

2007-08-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> With > \usepackage[german]{nomenclature} > e.g. in the LaTeX Preamble you will get a problem because LyX already puts > into the file \usepackage{nomenclature} before. That is clear. You can add the option "german" to the document class options (menu Document->Settings). I'll add this hint to

Re: Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Moschops schrieb: Which was the last version to run on Win98? There was no such version. LyX for Windows up to version 1.3.3 (using the XForms frontend) could be run using the cygwin unix emulator. I tried once to get it running on Win ME but failed. regards Uwe

Re: Layout for Jura / Law PhD Thesis

2007-08-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Fritz Bein schrieb: I would like to convince a friend to write her PhD thesis (Law) in Lyx. I have found some valuable resource in MikTex (package juramisc) and I wonder if there exist an equivalent layout file for Lyx. Maybe anyone has created one, or made some experiences writing law texts i

Re: how to configure the position of the graphics

2007-08-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hisham Ihshaish schrieb: I want to put Figures (Graphs) in the middle of the page, but it is not going with LyX 1.5.1 and book doccument type.. Set the cursor before the image and use the paragraph settings menu to center it. If the image is within a float, doe the same for the float. regar

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 for Windows crashes on startup

2007-08-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bryce Ready schrieb: TextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file `'. Exiting. Completed Any ideas? Could have many reaons, also some of your MiKTeX installation. You can try to uninstall LyX 1.5.1 completely and then reinstall it using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX

[announce] completely revised LyX UserGuide - request for testing

2007-08-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I'm proud to announce a completely revised LyX UserGuide. The current UserGuide was the last time comletely revised for LyX 1.2. In the meantime LyX has got many new features that are currently not mentioned in the UserGuide or only partly described. The changelog of the new Use

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 failed to start on Windows XP

2007-08-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steven Truong schrieb: Thank Bob. I installed the software as Admin and rebooted the computer and logged back in as Admin to run the software. During the installation process, I accepted all the defaults and this software is still not working. I am not sure what kind of magics needed to get i

Re: Great Aspell Problem Windows XP (some other points)

2007-08-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Heiko Schroeder schrieb: as a supplement of the first mail (Installing Aspell and german dictionary separately after installing the bundle of LyX 1.5.1. for Windows XP): It *must* be a problem with LyXs call of aspell. I tried everything, I can think of... I give up now! Under Linux it works

Re: cross reference to Algorithm float object does not work

2007-08-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas Schmidt schrieb: I defined a algorithm float object and inserted a cation and a label to ist, because i want to reference to this algorithm box. > With referencing to this box, lyx can translate the file to a pdf. But if i'm referencing from my text with the cross reference > function

Re: cross reference to Algorithm float object does not work

2007-08-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas Schmidt schrieb: For me a algorithm float object is a normal float object like the other ones. Why i have to insert so many instructions to the preambel of lyx just for this float object? Can users expect a better solution for future Versions of lyx? The problem is the underlying LaT

Re: [announce] completely revised LyX UserGuide - request for testing

2007-08-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Marcelo Acuña schrieb: I download from wiki.lyx.org page Userguide and Customization docs. Customization compile Ok but have several lines that run out of margin. I removed the Customization document from this page as this file is outdated. Userguide no compile. I get Undefinid control se

Re: L.25emYX

2007-08-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Typhoon schrieb: I'm compiling a pdflatex document using the hyperref package to give an active index. In the sidebar, I get L.25emYX whenever LyX appears in a headline. > Is there some easy fix for this? Add this to your document preamble: % redefine the \LyX macro for PDF bookmarks \def\

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